The Lancaster Police Department has established a bank account to help retired officer Ray Knight and his family.

Knight remains hospitalized after being shot in the head last week on Lynwood Circle.

Police Chief Hugh White said the department encourages everyone to contribute to the BB&T account, which was opened earlier this week.

On June 27, Knight had gone over to help two people who wrecked a vehicle and one of the occupants shot him in the right eye. Knight has since had that eye removed, and it is uncertain whether he will regain full sight in his left eye.

We were driving down Main Street last Friday night when I saw some familiar figures perched on the steeple at First Presbyterian Church.

The steeple served as a perch last July for a juvenile red-tailed hawk and its mother, who occasionally stopped by to check on her baby and feed it. The baby apparently wasn't quite ready to leave home.

Two months before, I had watched as two hawks spiraled higher and higher into the air above White Street, the mating flight of red-tails in love.